In fact, some of their other departments are notable for contradicting the lofty claims of their marketing.
It happens every time. The best defense for the engineers is to have thoroughly documented the limitations of the system.
Citation needed please
> Pony looked around, a hunted man. He’d got his pink carbon copies, and they would show everyone that he was nothing more than a man who’d tried to make things work, but right now all he could find on his side was the truth. He took refuge in it.
That is, you may induce your employees to commit crimes, while not personally violating any laws.
Or your employees may commit crimes because middle management thought it was more important to hit their targets.
There is an obvious moral conflict here; the laws have not caught up to the complexity of corporate culture.
BTW, he was later acquitted by a jury.
[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-boeing-737-max-chief-t...
Edited to add this link https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/busi...
If shareholders collectively promise and agree to hold Tesla stock and upvote it for a 5-10 year period it would give Tesla the space and time they need to develop FSD safely.
As long as they're at the mercy of ruthless quarterly free market capitalism, safety will go to shit. Same thing with Boeing.
This is the problem. Shareholders demand short term returns, not a long term safe/sustainable future and long term returns.
> successful enough to keep them placated
No, not really. A good chunk of the market value of TSLA is hinged upon FSD becoming a reality at some point in the future.
So what? There's nothing wrong about that. Shareholders demand both long term stability and short term returns btw - if the market thought there are no long term returns to be had, the stock price would've crashed.
Shareholders don't have much say about how Tesla does it, and they're actually the ones defrauded.
When Tim Cook was asked pointed questions on why Apple gave a crap about environmental concerns, rather than focussing on pure profit über-alles, he smacked down the questioner [1]
"If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”
A company's decisions can be guided by shareholders, but it's on the company to forge their own path. If the shareholders don't like it, they'll vote with their feet. Promising unicorns to keep the feet planted where they are is not a good strategy.
[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/28/tim-cook-rejects-ncppr-propos...